A U.S. Intelligence Report Fails To Pinpoint COVID's Origins
After a 90-day review, U.S investigators did not turn up any clear answer on whether the coronavirus hopped from an animal to a human — or somehow escaped from a lab.
by Will Stone
Aug 27, 2021
2 minutes
Updated August 27, 2021 at 7:15 PM ET
A much anticipated U.S. intelligence report on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic has failed to reach any firm conclusion on whether the coronavirus first found its way into humans through contact with an infected animal or that the virus somehow escaped from a lab.
Both hypotheses remain plausible, according to an unclassified summary of the by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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